Your Childhood home or your current home?

[Spinneret]

which was better?

 

[White Cat]

In what way?

 

[nw6675]

Between the military and my mom always wanting to buy a new house, we moved a LOT. My current house is a home and likely our forever spot.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

which was better?

Define "better"

 

[TippyThomas]

Current for sure.

 

[tvguy]

Well, I my initial reaction is, I don't know. However in 2013 when my mom passed away we did have to decide whether to sell that house or our house and we decided to sell my mom's house.
My mom's house was 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,772 square feet on a half acre lot, custom built in 1960, and had never been remodeled. I lived in that house from age 3 until age 24.
Our house is 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2010 square feet on a .17 acre lot, tract home built in 1979 and have never been remodeled. I moved to this house in 1983
The deciding factor was my mom's house was worth twice what ours was, so we could do a complete remodel of our house and have a nice hunk of money left.

 

[Silver saucer]

childhood for sure

 

[luvnwdwgal]

The location of our current home is much better than the home I grew up in.

 

[ronandannette]

Other than the loving atmosphere my parents provided, every single place I've ever lived since has been objectively "better" than my childhood home.

 

[Meriweather]

As for the house itself.....now is much better. Bigger and nicer.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My childhood home holds my fondest and also my worst memories, if we're talking sentiment. I'd pick where I live now because I don't think I'd like to go back to those days, if I'm being completely honest. If we're talking houses, I toured my childhood home when it was up for sale some time ago, and it had been completely renovated and was gorgeous-but cold, and without my mother's love to fill it, empty in more ways than one. Oops, there goes the sentiment again...I don't think I can separate the memories from the place.

 

[disykat]

Current. I didn't like the galley kitchen in the house I grew up in. Basically, it had the entire kitchen on one wall and the fridge on the other with empty space for a small table squished up against the wall on the other. Even as a kid, I envied the neighbors u shaped kitchen with counters on 3 sides and an eat in area. I did a lot of cooking and it was a really awkward layout.

 

[Kimkimba]

Well I guess current is better because it’s been updated and remodeled. But it is the same house. We bought my childhood home.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Mine is very similar to the one I grew up in.

 

[bakerworld]

My childhood home is haunted so I'm more comfortable here.

Yeah, we could've bought it but who wants to live in a house where you're both out in the car trying convince the other person to re-enter the house to turn off the lights that you could swear were off? If you were sitting downstairs you could hear people walking around upstairs, opening and closing doors. If you were upstairs it always sounded like someone was entering. Every kid who slept there saw a woman standing at the end of the bed, although my eldest said she would also sit in the rocker. When my mother was ill I spent the night and the bed started rocking so bad I jumped out thinking the house was shaking. It wasn't so I got back in and right a way the bed started rocking again. So Fine, I'm up! It was almost time to go to work. I went downstairs to my mother trying to make me coffee but she forget the water and the pot was just burning. I guess the ghost was just trying to save the house. Whatever. No, I prefer my non-haunted abode.

I grew up in that house with heat that accumulated at the 9ft ceilings, no insulation, plaster walls that you couldn't bang a nail in without creating a massive hole, only 2 outlets per room and the only outlet in the attic was in the hallway as part of the light fixture, open concept with archways so you couldn't be anywhere downstairs without hearing what everyone was doing, thousand leggers that were 2 inches long/half inch wide in the basement, damp basement because the clay drains were all disintegrated, decaying soffits and wooden front porch, doors that swelled shut seasonally with the only door working 100% the one Dad put in the back porch. All I saw in that house was the work and at 40 I had no ambition to fix it.

The house is beautiful and sits on an acre of land one house away from a state park and backs onto a stream. It has a wrap around porch, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, large eat in kitchen, deck off the back, attic with two large rooms and a large unfinished attic room. Acres of unpainted trim and solid wood floors. But for me it would always be my parents house, which would stop me from changing it. I walk by it all the time and wish the people currently living there good luck.

 

[jimmalru80]

Lots of memories in the childhood home (small) and lots of memories in our current home. I've enjoyed both.

 

[firefly_ris]

My childhood home is haunted so I'm more comfortable here.

Same... or at least I'm convinced. My mother deals antiques for a hobby and their house has always been furnished with 97% antiques. She enjoys Victorian style so most of the house is decorated that way. House is newer, very large all-brick colonial built in 1989. Not sure if it's the house or the stuff but I've always been unsettled there and still am now when we spend the night. I told her when they die don't expect me to keep the house OR the stuff because I'm not dragging any of it into my house, which is a good bit older but without all the heebie-jeebies. When I was a kid I saw the silhouette of a person walking up the stairs while I was in bed -- after that I made my parents re-arrange my room so the bed wasn't facing the doorway out. I swear my mattress some nights felt like something was inside of it moving around trying to push out. Candlesticks leaping out of their deep holders and setting the alarm off, desk roller-chairs moving late at night downstairs, the slight feeling of always being watched. Beautiful home, my dad is an amazing woodworker, craftsman, electrician and has done so much over the last 33 years but alone at night that's a big no thanks. My friends always joked it's built on an ancient burial ground.

 

[mrodgers]

I live only 1 step above homeless. There is no further down to downgrade to other than being Matt Foley in a van down by the river. It's still far better the amount of times I have to deal with my mother now than when I was a child actually living in her house under her dictatorship.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Any house my parents are in is not the one you’d want to be in. My current home is better in every possible way.

 

[fly girl]

I love both, but no doubt my current home is nicer. However, I would give my childhood backyard the win over my current backyard.

Sadly, the area I grew up in has declined over the years. Back in the 70's-80's it was a lovely neighborhood. Currently, I wouldn't call it rough, but it definitely not as nice as when I grew up there.